- RadStats: Radical Statistics Catalogue (various international data sources)
- LOD2 Project: List of Open Data (various international data sources)
- NBER: The national bureau of economic research (data used in published journals)
- OpenGovernment: A project to promote transparency by opening access to all datasets (mostly EU)
- DataHub: Open Data project like OpenGovernment
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Other Data Catalogues
Links of Data catalogues similar to mine. They can be helpful when everything else doesn't work!
Worldwide Data
The list will include data sources that contain datasets from numerous country of the world. For country specific data please check the other categories of the site.
- UK Data Service: An attempt to merge various datasets from different sources into one platform. Includes all types of data.
- ACRN: Anticorruption Research Network Databases contain corruption related data.
- TI: Transparency International - Corruption Indeces.
- UN: Databases from the United Nations.
- OECD: Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development Databases.
- OECD-Library: Contains all the stats, graphs, tables used in the OECD publications.
- ILO: International Labour Organisation.
- IMF: International Monetary Fund. All the indebted nations are certainly in here!
- World Bank: Large international datasets.
- The Economist: Useful financial and economic data from the leading magazine.
- Economist Intelligence Unit: Financial Data and Dynamic Forecasts can be retrieved freely or purchased.
- PippaNoris Data: Data from the JFK Harvard School of Government with political datasets.
- DataBankProject: The oldest living panel data since 1815. Can be retrieved by emailing the foundation.
- Guardian: The data repository of the british newspaper.
- UNESCO: Cultural, Educational and Social Data.
- World Bank Financial Data: A beta version of the latest datasets of the world bank.
- WHO: World Health Organisation Statistics.
- RoperCenter: International Public Opinion Datasets and more.
- Google Data Lab
- Google Fusion Tables
- YouGov: The revolutionary panels (unfortunately only archive reports are available).
- Index of Economic Freedom: The well known index of free market performance by the conservative Heritage Foundation.
- World Values Survey: A survey quantifying cultural aspects of societies.
- Freedom House Indeces: Data on Freedom of the world, press, net.
- Open Budget Index: Independent, comparative, regular measure of budget transparency and accountability.
- Rule of Law Index: Assess a nation’s adherence to the rule of law.
- Global Financial Integrity: Information regarding illicit financial transactions.
- Global Integrity Report: Data on Practices in governance and assessment of the public sector.
- Global Assessment Portal: Exceptional Guide Containing indicators for good governance characteristics.
- Polity Project: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions since 1800.
- Birch Index of Electoral Malpractice
- World Bank Governance Indicators: Measures of Quality in Governance for 213 Economies since 1996.
- Social Policy Data: compilation of datasets on social policy systems, tax systems, public opinion, quality of govornance and political indicators.
- Public Administration Data: unique data set on the structure and behaviour of public administration, based on a web survey. of 973 country experts from 126 countriesaround the world.
- Graduate Institute of Geneva: Contains an interesting list of datasets of macroeconomic origin.
- Aid Data: Search for Foreign Aid data.
- Right to Information Index: A comparative index examining the openness to infrmation for 80+ countries.
- Joint External Debt Hub: Free Database with debt related datasets gathered from the IMF, World Bank, BIS, and OECD.
- Sustainable Governance Indicators: OECD Cross National Survey of Governance. Measurement of Equality and Freedom.
- Bribe Payer Index: The 2011 index with the private supply side of corruption, published by the Transparency International.
- Human Development Index trends
- Gap Minder: A wide list of world health related datasets
- Buzz Data: An interesting site that attempts to promote the use of data for storytelling and research. Good collection of various datasets too!
- RevenueWatch: Dataset on transparency of mineral, oil, and gas exporting countries.
- Data Gov: Graphical Representation of Data and option to extract the datasets
- Factual: Unique data sets ranging from health,education, and entertainment.
- DataMarket: An Icelandic treasure in data exploring and sharing. Searches through many different data providers.
- Infochimps: Another attempt to offer a unified searching platform for data
- The DataHub: The most extensive open data initiative
- EH.net: Rich historical time series for a variety of countries
- DoingBusiness: Business related data. Easiness to start a business, taxation, credit details etc per country
- Ponemon: Data and Internet security related information. What is the cost of data for businesses?
- Survey Question Bank: Search for major surveys conducted by various national and internation organisations
- Internation Social Survey Programme: Archives and data from a wide range of surveys
- PRS: Political Risk Services
- Better Life Index: Published by the OECD categorising coutnries by aspects of good life
- Publish What You Fund Index: Country indicators on aid transparency
- OpenSpending.org
- Quality of Government: Compiled by the Quality of Government Institute
- Quandl: Datasets for Finance and Economics
- Archigos: Rich Data Base on Political Leaders from 1875-2004 for 150+ countries
US- Canada Data Only
This post will present a list of data sources for US and Canada Only:
- DataGov (USA)
- USA Data (USA)
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
- Labour Data (USA)
- Agricultural Data (USA)
- Budget Chart Book (USA): Data provided by the conservative Heritage Foundation
- Shadow Government Statistics (USA): Alternative Data Calculation in the US
- DataLibre.Ca (Canada): An up-to-date list of links and resources for Canadian Data
- Canada
- United States
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- Bureau of the Census
- Department of Agriculture - Economic Research Service
- Department of Agriculture - World Agricultural Board
- Department of Commerce (STAT-USA)
- Department of Justice Statistics
- Department of Transportation
- Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- Fedstat
- International Trade Administration - U.S. Department of Commerce
- International Programs Center - U.S. Census Bureau
- National Center for Education Statistics
- National Center for Health Statistics
- Failed Banks
- General Social Survey
- Centre for Medicair
European Data Only
Below I list official data sources that contain datasets for European countries only. These might be both member countries of the European Union or not:
The links will be updated regularly.
Please let us know any other sources by sending an email to data@aboutsocialdata.org or in the form of a comment below.
The links will be updated regularly.
Please let us know any other sources by sending an email to data@aboutsocialdata.org or in the form of a comment below.
- Council of European Social Data (European Continent)
- EUROSTAT: The motherland of data (EU member states)
- European Commission Economic and Financial Affairs: ACCESS SEVERAL THEMATIC DATABASES FROM THE LEFT SIDE MENU
- European commission: General Government Data (EU member states)
- European commission: Social Data (EU member states)
- European Central Bank: The ECB Statistical Warehouse containing monetary data
- PublicData: A EU open data initiative
- European Values Survey: Data on cultural perceptions of the Europeans (also check the world values survey)
- European Social Survey: Data on social capital characteristics among the Europeans
- AsktheEU.org: Freedom of Information requests addressed to EU agencies
- OpenTED: Data of the EU procurement database
Country Specific Data Sources follow:
- Enel Open Data (Italy) - The leading electricity company in Italy publishes extensive data on the electricity industry
- Italian Data (Italy) - The Italian open government initiative
- Spanish Open Data (Spain)
- Belgian Open Data (Belgium)
European Statistical National Offices:
- Austria: Statistik Austria
- Bulgaria National Statistical Institute
- Croatia Central Bureau of Statistics
- Cyprus Department of Statistics and Research
- Czech Republic Czech Statistical Office
- Denmark Statistics Denmark
- Estonia Statistical Office of Estonia
- European Community (EC) EUROSTAT
- Finland Statistics Finland
- France National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE)
- Germany Federal Statistical Office
- Greece National Statistical Service
- Hungary Hungarian Central Statistical Office
- Iceland Statistics Iceland
- Ireland Central Statistics Office
- Italy National Institute of Statistics
- Latvia Central Statistical Bureau
- Lithuania Department of Statistics
- Luxembourg National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies
- Malta Central Office of Statistics
- Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS)
- Norway Statistics Norway
- Poland Central Statistical Office
- Portugal National Institute of Statistics
- Romania National Commission for Statistics
- Russia Russian State Committee for Statistics
- Slovakia Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic
- Slovenia Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
- Spain National Institute of Statistics
- Sweden Statistics Sweden
- Switzerland Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- Turkey State Institute of Statistics
- United Kingdom
- General Register Office for Scotland
- Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Office for National Statistics
- Yugoslavia Federal Statistical Office
Data for Cities
Over the years the demand for city specific datasets has led to the opening of official city statistic sites. Major metropolis of the world engage into a transparent publication of their everyday data enabling a thorough examination of the happenings and a more open governance.
Below city datasets that I have come across through the years are posted. I must underline that all the dataset will be originated from the official sources. The links will be updated regularly.
Please post us information through an email: data@aboutsocialdata.org or in a comment below if you are aware of the presence of more datasets for other cities.
Below city datasets that I have come across through the years are posted. I must underline that all the dataset will be originated from the official sources. The links will be updated regularly.
Please post us information through an email: data@aboutsocialdata.org or in a comment below if you are aware of the presence of more datasets for other cities.
- London City
- City of London Spending
- Vancouver: Rich data from the city of Canada
- Ottawa
- California: Education Data only
- New York: Real Estate and Urban Policy Data by the Furman Center
- New York City
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